Hi, I didn't yet try to read it, but I'm not that worried about its
size. I was just wondering that these ontologies representation files
are extremely redundant, so compression would be a natural choice for
their transfer.
Although it is more of a perspective thinking, I don't think this is a
big issue at the moment.
I guess extensional subsets are pretty natural in an taxonomy. Is the
problem only the definition of the subsets of interest, or is there
something more that I'm missing ?
ciao,
Andrea
Il giorno 26/feb/09, alle ore 04:25, Chris Mungall ha scritto:
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> On Feb 25, 2009, at 4:17 PM, andrea splendiani (RRes-Roth) wrote:
>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> It'2 240M, but compressed is only 9.
>> I wonder whether there is some architecture to transparently transfer
>> compressed ontologies...
>
> well the obo file is a bit more compact, and the source NCBI file is
> even more compact. The OWLAPI should be able to read the obo
> (probably takes a bit of memory), or you could run the conversion at
> your end.
>
> Alternatively you could define a subset of interest (aka GO slim),
> either extensionally or intensionally, and we could set something up
> to import only that slim. I know others who would be interested in a
> similar resource.
>
>>
>> Ciao,
>> Andrea
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chris Mungall [mailto:cjm@berkeleybop.org]
>> Sent: 25 February 2009 20:53
>> To: andrea splendiani (RRes-Roth)
>> Cc: public-semweb-lifesci hcls
>> Subject: Re: Is there an NCBI taxonomy in OWL ?
>>
>>
>> On Feb 25, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Andrea Splendiani wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was looking for an NCBI Taxnomoy in OWL, but I didn't find it (or
>>> better, could find fragment from other projects...)
>>>
>>> What is strange though, is that on the obo foundry website
>>> (berkeleybop.org/ontologies) there are notes on the ncbi taxonomy
>>> representation in owl... but not the representation itself.
>>
>> Temporarily dropped from the summary page but still available at the
>> usual URL
>> http://purl.org/obo/owl/NCBITaxon
>>
>> (warning: large..)
>>
>>> Does anybody have some hint about where I can fin an OWL version ?
>>> Or even an RDF version ? Even better would a sparql endpoint
>>> containing it...
>>>
>>> best,
>>> Andrea Splendiani
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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